Aletha
About 6,948 American babies have been named Aletha since 1881, most of them around 1923. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 3,400 Alethas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aletha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,948
- Estimated living today
- 3,400
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 603rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Alethas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,948 babies given the name since 1881, about 3,400 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Aletha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aletha is most concentrated in Iowa (4.3×), Kansas (3.7×), Michigan (2.6×), South Carolina (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular girls’ names the year Aletha peaked:
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Aletha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.